Not only we had Easter, but in textiles there was a lot to enjoy as well, this past month. We also had our annual spinweekend 'The Witthe Wieven'. With a group of spinning friends we spent a long weekend at Mennorode, in the woods of Gelderland. Theme: You don't have to do anything, but if you wish you can participate in everything. A theme I like a lot.
Het is natuurlijk al fijn om iedereen weer te zien. De eerste paar uur moet er dan ook vooral bijgepraat worden.

Of course is is great to see each other again after a year. So the first few hours are spent telling each other the latest news.
We kijken wat iedereen spint en vooral ook: waarop. Dit jaar viel op, dat er steeds meer electrische spinnewielen verschijnen.

We have a look at what everyone is spinning and especially on what everybody is spinning. More and more electric spinners appear.
Een van de activiteiten is het maken van een batt. Dit jaar had iedereen naturelkleurige vezels meegebracht en het maken van de drie batts (helemaal licht, lichtbruin en zwart) was weer een geanimeerde gebeurtenis.

One of the activities is making a batt together. This year everyone had brought natural coloured fiber and making the three different batts (completely light, lightbrown and black) was a great event.

Op de voorgrond de lichtbruine, daarachter de zwarte batt. De meerderheid van alle vezels in de batt was wel licht.

In front the lightbrown batt, in the back the black one. Both batts were mainly light fiber though.

The following day: show and tell time again. Always fun. Attention was especially for the products made of last year's batts. Hier Willemien's shawl, crochet and a fringe, 'because a shawl without a fringe isn't a shawl.' Exactly. In any case it was very pretty.